At the same time an ecstasy and a rapture beyond anything that she had ever imagined would have gone.
There was a little pause before Susi stammered,
“You must have the children – you were unable to have with – your first wife.”
The Comte smiled.
“I have thought of that too. Lorraine told me that you were married when you were seventeen and your daughter was born when you were eighteen. As she is eighteen, that means that you are now thirty-six. We are the same age, my lovely one.”
Susi looked at him wide-eyed as he went on,
“I have calculated that we can have two sons before I refuse to allow you to have any more children.”
“Two – sons?”
It was difficult to say the words.
“It is a tradition of the Girones to produce sons, but if one is a daughter then, if she looks like you, I sh
